Entries Categorized as 'ShortOnly'

SoS: Stopped out of everything.

Date September 22, 2009

So 5,000 has been broken on the Nifty and the WIDE stops on the Short Only strategy have been hit. I was expecting a move up but was thinking it would stop before this – guess it was not to be.

Crappy return, of course – a negative 10% in just about a…

SoS: ICICI Bank Stop Lossed, DLF Put added

Date September 12, 2009

I’m getting out of ICICI Bank in the Short Only Strategy. It’s crossed the stop loss of 15% I had set.

The rest of the positions are still within the limits, but the performance sucks – a -6.56% return in a year is terrible. And I didn’t take advantag…

SoS: Rollover, Crappy Performance and A Holiday

Date August 27, 2009

Rolling over all positions from the Short Only strategy as is. No change in my outlook from a fundamental perspective, though I’m close to stop losses on everything. Performance has been pathetic, with a negative 3%; good learning on what might work an…

SoS: Rollover, Crappy Performance and A Holiday

Date August 27, 2009

Rolling over all positions from the Short Only strategy as is. No change in my outlook from a fundamental perspective, though I’m close to stop losses on everything. Performance has been pathetic, with a negative 3%; good learning on what might work an…

Restarting SoS: ICICIBank, HDFC, RelInfra, Nifty

Date August 17, 2009

I’m restarting the Short Only Strategy. After a pretty good bull run, there seems to be some weakness. I think I may be too early; this of course has no money involved (it’s “virtual”) so I would not recommend that anyone try this at home without prote…